Video: Improving the video timing

Another very minor detail that bothered me, because I noticed these things, is just the timing of when some of these videos come on and off. For example, this frame on the right, where the nurse is taking the blood pressure of a patient. For a good deal of the time that she comes on screen, we don't get a very attractive look of her, we just see her back instead of seeing more of her face and her actually putting the cuff on the patient. So I think I'm going to slide the timing of that video so we see her in a more attractive light when she comes on screen. I've moved it to a representative frame shortly after she comes on screen and I'm going to slide her layer bar to change her timing so that's she's starting to turn forward as she comes on the screen. Let's see how that looks.

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Improving the video timing

Another very minor detail that bothered me, because I noticed these things, is just the timing of when some of these videos come on and off.For example, this frame on the right, where the nurse is taking the blood pressure of a patient.For a good deal of the time that she comes on screen, we don't get a veryattractive look of her, we just see her back instead of seeing more of her faceand her actually putting the cuff on the patient.So I think I'm going to slide the timing of that video so we see her in a moreattractive light when she comes on screen.I've moved it to a representative frame shortly after she comes on screen andI'm going to slide her layer bar to change her timing so that's she's startingto turn forward as she comes on the screen. Let's see how that looks.

We'll pull back, even though in that pull back, I wouldn't mind her being alittle further around like that.Let's make sure I've not hurt my timing later on in this composition.I want to make sure I don't run out of video while her frame is still on screenand looks like we're safe.We still see some image, this last frame that that video is visible, so we're safe.My danger would have been if I had dragged it so far that the video wouldhave finished playing and then suddenly we would have a blank area, but we've got enough, I'll undo. I think that's a mild improvement there.

The other thing which is very minor, but which bothers me a little bit, is we don't get to see a lot of this last pose of this physical therapist helping the range of motion on this patient.By the time the camera has done panning to that person, that video frame isalmost entirely off screen.So I think I'd like to slide things in time, so we get a little bit more of that shot.Let me test to see where is the last frame of the master comp, I want to see that video, right around there.Let's start sliding its layer bar to the point to where we run out of video.

It is right around there, so I'll back up a little bit and now we could see much more of that therapist on screen after that camera pan is finished.Now let's make sure we haven't screwed up the start of our video.Here's where we pull back and reveal these frames.The camera pan is hitting that pillar a bit soon, so I may have slid the video too much.I think I would like to see a little bit less that pillar until we'veestablished this girl on screen and the therapist talking to her.

Here's the pull back, we could see that patient, then we land, then we start our pan.I think this can be a little bit less annoying and we still get to see a bitmore of the therapist at the end of the video.The other videos are pretty good to me.The Stress Test is the same pose, locked on camera throughout, and actually I dolike the timing for when these joggers come on screen.They do come around and make a turn and give me the maximum ability to view them.So I'm pretty happy with the jogger footage.We could try sliding it to see if that help us any, but I'm not sure it does,maybe right around there, no big improvement, probably we don't need to tweak that anymore.

Okay, now that I've made these touchups, now I'm ready to render a proof for the client.

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